Boy, 13, hit by car while inside church
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The boy, Lake Kirby, was airlifted for precautionary measures but has since been released from the hospital.
The accident took place Sunday around 11:45 a.m. at St. Matthew?s Episcopal Church which is located across the bypass from McMinnville Funeral Home on Edgewood Avenue. Kirby was standing near a basement entrance to the church fellowship room when a vehicle driven by Lynn V. Bragg, 51, crashed through a glass wall.
According to police reports, Bragg had a cast on her right foot and was trying to operate the gas and brake pedals with her left foot. Because of the awkwardness of trying to arrange her feet with a bulky cast, Bragg reportedly had her foot on the gas and brake pedals at the same time. When her foot slipped off the brake, the vehicle shot through the wall in reverse and went completely inside the building.
Kirby was the only person struck by the vehicle although the room was filled with over a dozen people. Congregation members were in the fellowship hall for an after-church luncheon.
The vehicle rolled on top of Kirby but he managed to avoid its wheels. He was released from Vanderbilt Children?s Hospital on Sunday night. He received three stitches over his right eye and was pretty banged up by the incident.